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Wistful Registers in Clark Handicap *Shy Guy Second To Calumet Mare Gives Wright Establishment - Second Stake Win of Week I At Downs; Johns Joy Third I CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., I May 3. — Calumet Farms Wistful, who was I a disappointing favorite in the Churchill I Downs Handicap last Saturday after com-I ing here from Keeneland where she won I the Ben Ali Handicap with ease, made I amends for her dull race on the week-end I by accounting for the 77th running of the | Clark i Handicap today. I The half-sister of Fanfare, Calumets 1 Kentucky Derby hopeful, ran the mile and 1 one-sixteenth in 1:44 flat, just two-fifths I behind the track record of Aris Mona. and I j showed way home to Dixianas Shy Guy I while in third place came John A. Kinards 1 Johns Joy, the winner of the Churchill I Downs Handicap last week. • 1 Witsfuls triumph was the second stake I i success of the week for Mrs. Warren 1 Wrights stable at the Downs, as Fanfare I took the Derby Trial on Tuesday in a 1 splendid effort. I Wistful came from last place at the | stretch turn to emerge the winner in a I three -horse blanket finish. She won by a I j head over Shy Guy, with Johns Joy third. J a nose back of the runner-up. Johns Joy I set all the pace, hitting the stretch three I J lengths on top but was unable to stave off j j Wistfuls challenge and lost the place to I Shy Guy in the last stride. I Summerlike weather prevailed in the I Louisville area and skies were clear for ■ the earlier races on the card. However, heavy cloud banks drifted over the Downs before the running of the better events and there was a decided threat of rain. A c crowd of approximately 10,000 spectators y l witnessed the racing, which was quite t formful. f Errards Guide Takes Juvenile Dash Johnny Loftus, who rode Sir Barton to i v victory in the 1919 Kentucky Derby, sad-e c died the winner of the Sir Barton Purse, t s sending Errards Guide out to capture the i * four and one-half furlongs juvenile dash. I Errards Guide, a member of the Chicago-; c owned Mrs. Ethel Galliger Bandy stable. 5 a assumed command at the start and then . c coasted to a handy three lengths decision, j £ Second honors in the supporting event fell t to C. V. Whitneys Potpourri, who was 3 t two and one-half lengths before Brown I * Hotel Stables Ave at the final marker. Our [ c Challenge and First Heir followed the 5 P placed horses home in that order. ; Errards Guide won his third purse In , i four starts when he annexed the Sir Bar-r t ton. He was the 6 to 5 choice in the specu-. 1« lation. The Bandy colt stepped the dis-. t; tance over the fast strip in :53?5. R. C. Austins Good Shopper found a I S group of lowly platers to her specific liking I " in the first race and drove to a three -: Q quarter length score over the Brown Hotel S Stables Punks. G. S. Kilpatricks Minne-I si singer finished third in the field of eight, i Good Shopper stepped the six furlongs o: of her task in 1:13%. Backers of the winner n were rewarded 1.00 for their confidence. 1 The second race went to Benjamin En-dovinas Outskirts in a driving finish over J. P. Keezeks Signal Code. A half length 5 separated the leaders at the close of the six panels, which was timed in the sparkling time of 1:11%.
